Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...outset there were two incongruous conceptions about the state of the dead. One was that they were powerful. This belief brought with it a corresponding cultus of the dead. On the other hand was the conception of the dead as "the weak," or "languid." The idea of the tomb in which the members of a family were buried, grew to the larger idea of sheol or the underworld, a place of dark, gloomy depths. Several passages in the Bible indicate the belief that earthly distinctions were carried into the other world...
...Psychological Roots of the Belief...
...Psychological Roots of the Belief...
GROUP II (A).1. The belief in immortality among the Greeks of the fifth and fourth centuries...
...Psychological Roots of the Belief...